17 Bible Verses about Speaking, Evil

For there are also many insubordinate men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those from circumcision,

For a dream comes with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.

Transgression is not lacking in the multitude of words, but he who refrains his lips does wisely.

Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?

Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they deceive. The poison of asps is under their lips,

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise [and] to do good.

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their inward part is very wickedness. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongue they {deceive (LXX/NT)}.

He who slanders his neighbor secretly, him I will destroy. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure.

The north wind brings forth rain. So does a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

For I fear lest somehow, having come, I may find you not such as I want, and I may be found by you such as ye do not want, lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, wraths, selfish ambitions, slanderings, whisperings, puffings up, t

he who does no slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor,

Thou sit and speak against thy brother; thou slander thine own mother's son.

Thou shall not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people, neither shall thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor. I am LORD.

He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates chief friends.

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases.

He who goes around as a tale-bearer reveals secrets, but he who is of a faithful spirit conceals a matter.

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil.

For he who wants to love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips not to speak deceit.

Therefore, having put off all evil and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speaking,

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

Speak not against each other, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against law and judges law. But if thou judge law, thou are not a doer of law, but a judge.

For I fear lest somehow, having come, I may find you not such as I want, and I may be found by you such as ye do not want, lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, wraths, selfish ambitions, slanderings, whisperings, puffings up, t

having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;

A perverse man scatters abroad strife, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

All who hate me whisper together against me. Against me they devise my hurt.

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts.

If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.

For he who wants to love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips not to speak deceit.

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking deceit.

He who guards his mouth keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

He who keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.